For Parents Particularly: What's a Parent to Do?: Phonics and other Stuff

Gerard, Maureen

doi:10.1080/00094056.2004.10522796

Childhood Education

2004

DOI: 10.1080/00094056.2004.10522796

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For Parents Particularly: What's a Parent to Do?: Phonics and other Stuff

Maureen Gerard¹

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Using environmental print to foster emergent literacy in children from a low-SES community

Neumann

2014

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

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Young children are exposed to environmental print within their communities and this print may be a useful resource to foster emergent literacy skills. This pre-post-test randomised controlled study examined the effects of using environmental print to enhance emergent literacy skills in children aged three to four years (N = 50) from a low-SES community in southeast Queensland, Australia. The 8-week (30 min/week) environmental print program provided multisensory strategies for children to interact with environmental print by identifying letters and words, tracing letters with fingers, and writing letters. ANCOVAs were conducted with pre-test scores as covariates. Children in the environmental print group significantly out-performed the control group on print knowledge, sound knowledge, and print awareness skills. The program had moderate to large effects sizes and showed that guiding low-SES preschoolers' interactions with environmental print using multisensory strategies is an effective way to foster emergent literacy skills.

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Using environmental print to foster emergent literacy in children from a low-SES community

Neumann

2014

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

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For Parents Particularly: More than Just Storybooks: Promoting Emergent Literacy Skills in the Home

Neumann

2009

Childhood Education

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Mother–child joint writing in an environmental print setting: relations with emergent literacy

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Hood

Ford

2011

Early Child Development and Care

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Mother -child dyads (N ¼ 35) were videoed as they wrote a shopping list in an environmental print-rich grocery shop play setting. The children (M age ¼ 4.3 years) were assessed on emergent literacy skills (letter name and sound knowledge, print concepts, phonological awareness, and letter and name writing). Mothers' general level of print and grapho-phonemic mediation during the joint-writing task was scored. After controlling for child age, maternal print and grapho-phonemic mediation of children's writing were both positively related to letter sound knowledge. Grapho-phonemic mediation was positively related to print concepts. A particular focus of this study was to investigate mothers' natural use of surrounding environmental print to scaffold writing. Only four mothers used environmental print to scaffold their child's writing. These mothers applied a variety of strategies including pointing out letters, describing letter shapes, and encouraging copying of letters and words from product labels and signs. There were no obvious differences between those who did or did not use environmental print in demographic factors, emergent literacy skills, or maternal mediation during joint writing. Despite there being only a small number of mothers who used environmental print, the range of strategies observed highlights the need for further research into using environmental print to scaffold children's emergent writing.

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For Parents Particularly: What's a Parent to Do?: Phonics and other Stuff

Cited by 5 publications

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Using environmental print to foster emergent literacy in children from a low-SES community

Using environmental print to foster emergent literacy in children from a low-SES community

For Parents Particularly: More than Just Storybooks: Promoting Emergent Literacy Skills in the Home

Mother–child joint writing in an environmental print setting: relations with emergent literacy

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